Rubik's Cube

An animation of the twisting of a Rubik's Cube. Use the six colored buttons to cause a clockwise quarter-turn twist of the face with the corresponding color at the center. Holding down the shift key causes a counterclockwise turn instead. Use the control key to produce a half turn. The slider controls the number of steps of the animation of each twist.

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The letters used to indicate the transformations use the standard notation, referring to the initial letters of the six faces: back, front, left, right, down, up. Counterclockwise turns are denoted by , half turns by . Because the cube as a whole can be rotated with the mouse, it is easier to refer to the faces by their center colors. The scramble button performs 25 random quarter turns (in either direction).